After my death our beloved Church abroad will break three ways ... first the Greeks will leave us as they were never a part of us ... then those who live for this world and its glory will go to Moscow ... what will remain will be those souls faithful to Christ and His Church.~St. Philaret of NY

It has been said that a certain heresy could be arising among the fragments. Or, maybe, it already has arisen, but is not yet articulated. It goes something like this:

The bishops are merely fulfilling a certain role that is necessary for the structure of a Church. Any bishop will do for any given moment, as long as the people apply the canons according to their strict interpretations.

This is like the Protestants who run off with our Bible and use it as the foundation of their Church. Instead, the super-correct, behaving like Protestants, run off with our canons and use them as the foundation of their Church. For them, then, the Church is no longer the Body of Christ; instead it is just an organization of people who all think alike.

Because of their "vague idea of the Church" the fragments have a need to have things strictly defined, especially that of the presence or absence of grace. Because, being outside the Body of Christ, (being in schism), the only way they can attribute grace to themselves is by a definition; for, in actual fact they have lost connection to the source of grace, which is the Church. They have lost the freedom that is given within the Body of Christ to trust God with such matters. The only way they can feel on top of things again (regain some sense of stability) is to proclaim that ROCOR is the one who is in schism because ROCOR won't make the same declarations they do (about grace), and won't stand on their foundation with them.

I would appreciate having help in articulating this heresy or problem – whatever it is. I'm interested in hearing from anyone who has also noticed this same disorder, and can help describe it. Hopefully something I can publish to help others who are also concerned about this.

World-orthodox, being the flip-side of the super-correct, also have a vague idea of the Church. Fr. Seraphim Rose wrote this in a letter to a catechumen who came from the Roman Church and who was concerned about ROCOR's seeming "intolerance" of other jurisdictions:

As for the "intolerant" attitude of our Synod to other Orthodox Churches: Several years ago a Catholic girl was received into our Church, and she told me that one of her earliest puzzlements concerned the seemingly great contrast between the frightful statements made about heretics, apostates, etc., and the universally kind and loving approach that she always found when talking to our clergy and faithful. I see no conflict whatever. To guard the truth one must speak straightforwardly about those who depart from it in order to protect the flock and, if possible, to enlighten those in error. But to every soul the Church opens Her treasures – if only he will listen to the truth and accept what She teaches – which comes from the Holy Spirit – not from his "reinterpretation" of it. With regard to those Orthodox Churches that are departing from truth, one should be if anything even more outspoken – for their leaders, having known Orthodoxy, are consciously departing from it and trying to lead the flock away with them. But in all my contacts with the zealots for Orthodoxy within our Church, I can truthfully say that I haven't found one of them without true Christian love for those in error; they would be the very first to embrace Patriarch Athenagoras and others if they repented of their errors and returned to Orthodoxy. The contrary impression, I believe, comes chiefly from the criticism of those whose idea of the Church is very vague and who therefore accuse our zealots of "lack of love" when they rightfully attack apostasy.

Letters, p. 11

All this is important to us because the fragments arose from within ROCOR (and we want them to return). We are very susceptible to super-correct disease. Unlike the renovationism disease which came from outside of us, (from world-orthodoxy), the super-correct disease came from within us. This is all the more clear now since the GOC-union. The GOC also, like us, has an innate tendency for super-correctness.

Well, then, what would be a clear idea of the Church? So marvelous is it to ponder Her. She is the "palace of the Master", as we say in our morning prayers where we sing of Her grace. I don't believe it is possible to have a clear idea of the Church from without. But outside the Church it surely is possible for someone to recognize that they are outside of it. Also, even while incomprehensible to the "head" (intellect), the "heart" (spirit) can be touched very deeply. Fr. Seraphim described his first visit to the Church before he was even a Christian:

… when I entered an Orthodox church for the first time (a Russian church in San Francisco) something happened to me that I had not experienced in any Buddhist or other Eastern temple; something in my heart said that this was "home", that all my search was over. I didn't really know what this meant, because the service was strange to me, and in a foreign language...

Not of This World, p. 81

This is how we know when we are in the true Church – by the experience of grace within Her. And not by some logical intellectual declaration that takes up page after page to "prove".

IN THE BRIEF YEAR since this book was printed it has become something of a "best-seller" among Orthodox books; if one includes the original articles in The Orthodox Word from which it was compiled, there will now be close to 5000 copies in circulation — something rather rare for a serious and uncompromising Orthodox book in the English language. It would seem that, despite the almost universal apostasy of our times, there are still many who are striving to understand and remain in genuine Orthodoxy.

In this year the "religious" phenomena described in this book have be come much more widespread. The "Dialogue" of the World Council of Churches with non-Christian religions and with anti-religious Communism (as manifested at the 1975 World Assembly of the WCC in Nairobi, Kenya) has encountered so little opposition that it no longer needs to apologize for itself; the age of spiritual "detente" has arrived, in which, it would seem, no one any longer presumes to think that he possesses the truth, much less wishes to preach it to others. Likewise, the activity of the "Temple of Understanding" (see above, pp. 5, 34) steadily expands and finds a welcome audience among the political and religious leaders of humanity, as attested by its activities in New York City in connection with the 30th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations in the spring of 1975.

In such a spiritually "neutralized" world, the various forms of meditation described in this book — and many other new ones— have become the "latest rage," especially in America, where its various cults receive nationwide publicity. A recent article in U.S. News and World Report (Feb. 16, 1976, p. 40) describes them as "consciousness cults" and says of them: "Few of the mind-therapy groups espouse religious views. They have a wide middle-class, even middle-aged, following among lawyers, doctors, teachers and other ‘establishment' types." Among these cults may be mentioned the "Erhard Seminars Training" established in 1971, "Rolling," "Silva Mind Control," and various forms of "encounter" and "biofeedback," all of which offer a "release of tensions" and "a "tapping of the hidden capabilities" of man, expressed in a more or less plausible "scientific" jargon. By far the fastest-growing of these cult; is "Transcendental Meditation” (see above, p. 85), which now claims 600,000 followers in America and is being widely used in the Army, public schools, prisons, hospitals, and by church groups, including parishes of the Greek Archdiocese. In a word, what is described in this book as a demonic initiation experience is now being accepted as a normal and harmless part of ordinary American life, as simply a form of "mental therapy." Can we still be so bold as to say that this experience is demonic?

It is most important for Orthodox Christians to be precisely aware of‘ what demonic experience is. It is by no means necessarily something black and overtly satanic; it is often something apparently light, attractive, and found in conjunction with some of the best ‘qualities of human nature. All the gods of the pagans are demons (Ps. 95:5) — but this does not mean that all the pagan religions are degenerate and bloody (although some of them, indeed, are). Some of the pagan religions are comparatively light and noble and are capable of inspiring a relatively moral and refined life, but the power of the prince of this world, the devil, is such that he makes all the pagans his children, destined for hell — unless they find the grace of God, which alone can save them from perdition. The Church of Christ saves men from the world — not merely from the dark, overtly evil side of the world, but even from its highest qualities and aspirations. All merely human devices are powerless to effect our salvation. Not logic, not good intentions, not a tenderly-loving heart — can save one if he finds not the grace of God which lifts one above this world.

The demonic religion described in this book is a striving of the human mind and soul deprived of the grace of God; all its good qualifies — and who will deny that it has them? — only serve to entice men into a religious experience that cannot save their souls, and by its apparent success prevents them from finding the true path to salvation.

Over a century ago Bishop Ignatius Brianchaninov recorded with awe and foreboding the vision of a simple Russian blacksmith in a village near Petersburg at the dawn of our present age of revolution (1817). In the middle of the day he suddenly saw a multitude of demons in human form, sitting in the branches of the forest trees, in strange garments and pointed caps, and singing, to the accompaniment of unbelievably weird musical instruments, an eerie and frightful song: "Our years have come, our will be done!" (S. Nilus, Svyatynya pod Spudom, Sergiev Posad, 1911, p. 122.)

We live near the end of this fearful age of demonic triumph and rejoicing when, as our recent Fathers have warned us, grace itself will seem to be departing from the earth. The religion of the devil, the religion of Antichrist takes possession of men's souls in direct proportion to the departure of grace; it is the participation of apostate humanity in the general rejoicing of the demons at the end of time to see the virtual disappearance of true Orthodoxy from the face of the earth.

Orthodox Christians! Hold fast to the grace which you have; never let it become a matter of habit; never measure it by merely human standards or expect it to be logical or comprehensible to those who understand nothing higher than what is human or who think to obtain the grace of the Holy Spirit in some other way than that which the one Church of Christ has handed down to us. True Orthodoxy by its very nature must seem totally out of place in these demonic times, a dwindling minority of the despised and "foolish," in the midst of a religious "revival" inspired by another kind of spirit. But let us take comfort from the certain words of our Lord Jesus Christ: Fear not, little flock, for it it your Father's good pleasure to give you the Kingdom (Luke 12:32).

In 2009 an Antiochian priest, Fr. Elias Yelovich, was dismissed for proclaiming a charismatic layman to be a prophet. A year later this priest was accepted into the vigante Milan synod, (as a priest).

November 17, 2009

Orthodox Christians for Accountability

http://www.ocanews.org/news/YelovichDismissed11.17.09.html

Suspended for Internet Comment, Priest Is Dismissed From Antiochian Archdiocese

In a letter to Fr. Elias Yelovich, dated November 9th, Bishop Thomas of Charleston has informed the suspended priest that “it has been decided that you should be ...removed from the roster of clergy of this Archdiocese. This action is being taken with the blessing of His Eminence, Metropolitan Philip, and is effective immediately.”

In the two page letter Bishop Thomas continued:

“The reasons for these actions are numerous. To name a few:

1. Your continued disobedience to directives passed on to you by my office, specifically those dealing with your own spiritual care, namely continuing against my direction to have a layman as your confessor.

2. Secondly, maintaining a parish council president who is not in good canonical standing with this Archdiocese. You have been sent a number of times a copy of the Priest’s Guide containing the model constitution for parishes, which indicates that council members must be in good canonical standing.

3. Proclaiming throughout your deanery that one of your parishioners is a “prophet” and accounting and proclaiming “miracles” without consulting the hierarchs of this Archdiocese.

Your recent postings to the website ocanews.org led us to interview you and investigate your activities. The investigation revealed that you had not changed any of the behaviors about which you had been warned. In addition to the serious items listed above, the disparaging remarks you posted about the Metropolitan on the Internet have contributed to our taking this action. Likening our Archbishop to a father who beats his children will never be tolerated. There are proper ways that we can disagree as brother clergy, and there are inappropriate ways. This one certainly was inappropriate.

As you know we have repeatedly asked you to conform to the practices of our Archdiocese and specifically to repudiate the remarks you posted on the Internet. Sadly, you have refused to work with us. This being the case we have no other recourse but to take this action.

Our Haiti Mission has received a donation again this year from Feed My Starving Children.

Food for the kids (12 tons of it) is on the way again, and should be available for pickup in Florida late this month. While the food is free, the transport from Florida and within Haiti and preparation (the latter provides a bit of paid employment for poor parents) is not. This costs about $6,000/yr. -- and puts a decent meal in the mouths of close to 500 kids 5 days a week during the school year. Do the math! It's a bargain, but only if we do our part. Scrape your pockets!

The most good a dollar can accomplish is with a donation to the Haiti Mission, the poorest of the poor.

• Philokalia – Impurity of intellect consists first in having false knowledge

Impurity of intellect consists first in having false knowledge; secondly in being ignorant of the universals (I refer to the human intellect, for it is a property of the angelic intellect not to be ignorant even of particulars); thirdly in having impassioned thoughts; and fourthly in assenting to sins.

"Hi Joanna, thought you might want to check out the Mystagogy site. He has just launched a new website titled "diamonologia", which apparently focuses on the dark side. For an Orthodox Christian this is so weird to write about and show interest in – especially to his degree (this is stuff people shouldn't mess with in any way, let alone study). Seems more to me that he wants to merge the occult with Christianity, really, or get viewers familiar with that kind of stuff, like soften it all up a bit... why else focus on it in this depth? Fr. Seraphim's books should be enough info on these topics, I would think."

This diamonologia website is right up there with John Granger's "Looking for God in Harry Potter". John Sanidopoulos, like John Granger, is educated, respected, and his works are also widely published.

When the true spirit of Orthodoxy is lost, then it leaves a void inviting in spiritual revivals and academic pretensions. So far it is only the left that is guilty of the spiritual revivals. But both the left and the right are susceptible to academic pretensions.

We can't stop what is happening in world-orthodoxy. But please, I hope, that if anyone of us sees the occult, or any hint of it, threatening to infect our Sister Churches (royal path), please, let us nip it off at the bud. Our clergy and the bishops are not always able to see trouble brewing on the local level or individual level. If we see a brother in a fault, we should go to him privately. If he will not hear, then we take one or more witnesses. If he still will not hear then we go to the Church. If the Church does nothing, we still must persist. This kind of thing can not be permitted to remain in our Church.

A certain Montanus, who applied to himself the prophecy of the Savior concerning the sending down of the Comforter (Jn. 15:26; 16:l2-l3), declared that he had been sent by God to restore the Church. The distinguishing characteristics of the Montanist sect were an excessive arousal of the senses and self-exaltation, an attempt to restore in the Church the discipline and life of the first Christians, a propensity towards false inspirations and extreme fanaticism in mortification of the flesh. Infected with pride, they considered only themselves to be spiritual Christians, and called the rest men of spirit and flesh.

– History of the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church, (a seminary textbook) translated from Russian by Isaac Lambertson for SJKP
page 59 (print on demand)

• Personnel of the Russian FSB are putting psychological pressure on clergymen of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kiev patriarchate (UPTsKP) in annexed Crimea. This was reported by Archbishop of Simferopol and Crimea Kliment, Religiia v Ukraine reports with reference to Pomisna and "Krym. Realii."

"I know that several priests were forced to sign papers regarding cooperation with the FSB. We are returning to the distant communist times when the KGB influenced priests," he said.

• Ukraine Church overtaken by MP, Aleksei Gordeev, who investigated this subject, reports that in the morning of 8 September church attendants prepared a charity dinner. At 11:00 a.m. two automobiles drove up to the house of worship with armed persons. According to a source, they "requested" rudely that the premises be evacuated within 20 minutes, noting that they did not now belong to the church and were being transferred to ownership by the Orthodox Church for conducting services. At the same time they demanded not only the evacuation of the building but also surrender of church documents (right of ownership) and the seal.

The militants explained that they were acting with a priest's blessing. All this time, the "holy father" from the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow patriarchate (there are no other Orthodox churches in the city) was sitting in a car, observing what was happening.

Then the militants drove out the parishioners who had been in the church without even letting them collect their things. An eyewitness to these events said that the supporters of the LPR answered the question "Why?" by saying your confession supported the war ("against the wishes of residents of the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics"—A.G.) and now there will be an Orthodox Sunday school here or something else.

• Some repercussions of the current Ukraine/Putin mess: "Putin's cheese"..and how Finns on the Russian border feel, whose local business depends on the Russians coming and buying their goods, etc.

Some of the many un-expected economic and social side-effects, on local people, common Russians and neighboring nations, because of this bloody and destructive invasion and warfare in Ukraine, being directed and run by Vladimir Putin, and his proxy, 'pro-separatist' terrorists, for his own political aims. We see now, the gradual unraveling of former peaceful economic and mutually beneficial relations, between the common Russian people, and neighboring European people.

Former people-to-people, goodwill, peaceful friendly borders, is being step by step, tragically lost. Instead, western and eastern European governments are being forced to prepare for...a defensive war, and against whom? ...Putin's military machine, and his economic threats against them.

How tragic, and how really unnecessary, except for the facts of what Mr. Putin's government is doing and threatening. And Ukraine is the prime example in front of everyone's eyes, -proof of what Putin desires, and what he is capable of doing to...neighbors.

Note: This was true when that terrible
'declaration of loyalty to the soviet authorities' was signed by
Sergius Stragorodsky, and the other betrayers, as it is now. Except now
we have the hindsight of what all those long years of Sergianist
captivity of Orthodox religion in Russia has cost... and still costs. And
this 'church' created by these traitors, is the organization that in
2007, a LARGE PART OF THE OLD FREE Russian Orthodox Church Abroad,
...signed their loyalty to, lead then by Lavr Shkurla, and now Hilarion
Kapral.Rd. Daniel

BLOOD ON THE HANDS OF HIERARCHS OF THE MOSCOW PATRIARCHY

In the widely known pernicious Declaration of 16/29 July 1927, Metropolitan Sergy Stragorodsky, Alexis Simansky, and eight other hierarchs signed a document expressing loyalty to the authority of the Soviet State and then they also called for such loyalty from Church hierarchs abroad “in all the Church’s public activities”.

By signing this document, Metropolitan Sergy and members of His “Synod”, put themselves in the service of the Soviet State, which conducted bloody executions in Russia of clergy, intellectuals, military leadership and peasants. By joining the ranks of these people who persecuted the Church, these hierarchs, for their own security, became Christ-sellers and Judases. Having broken the Church canons, regulations and traditions they became servants of the anti-religious government, helping to persecute clergy and believers faithful to Christ, and assisting the atheists in closing churches and monasteries.

With this Declaration, Metropolitan Sergy in a way gave the blessing of the Russian Church to the godless Soviet government for such crimes, stating that “your joys are our joys, your misfortunes are our misfortunes” and morally he united not only himself, but also all hierarchs of the Moscow Patriarchy to the Soviet government and its crimes.

Defending the atheistic government before the entire world, he began to lieoutrageously, saying that there is no persecution of the Church in the USSR, (but) that the Church is in a better situation than before, and that the government only persecutes criminals.

The successors of Metropolitan Sergy (later by wish of Stalin - the “red patriarch” in a “church” established by the will of the dictator) and thesuccessive hierarchs of the Moscow Patriarchy, did not denounce this pernicious Declaration, but on the contrary even now they persuade others, that the Declaration has been the only salvation of the Russian Church, forgetting the factthat it is written that the gates of hell shall not overcome the Church. Their lack of repentance and their inherited guilt (called “sergianism”) is at the present time one of the main obstacles to the unity of the Church in Russia and the Church Abroad.

Therefore, since the contemporary hierarchs of the Moscow Patriarchy, appointed to their positions by the past communistic governments, do not admit their inherited guilt for participationin suchcriminal activities, how can it be conceived possible to conduct with such “clerical personalities” negotiations about the future of the Russian Orthodox Church? How is it possible to trust such clergy, that confirm that black is white? How is it possible for the commissions that represent ROCOR to sit down at the same table with those who morally participated in Soviet crimes?

"In October 1918 the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church cancelled the previous decision, and no longer allowed imiaslavtsy to participate in church services unless they repented. The decision was signed by Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow.”This seems to me to be a rather authoritative position taken by the Russian Church.

"Among the theologians who spoke out for imiaslavie were Pavel Florensky and Sergey Bulgakov.” The support of these supposed “theologians” is quite sufficient for us Russians to discredit the whole imiaslavie movement.

In general, I see no good coming from any revival of this movement. Already, it has revitalized a controversy that had long been considered a dead issue, and once again it has become highly divisive. The people promoting it are all in fringe groups that tend toward sectarianism. Not a good sign.

It seems to be an intellectual argument over the distinction between essence and energy. Such arguments are better understood in the Greek language.

"Deliberate" means that the R-splits were caused by the KGB. For the purpose of 'Divide and Conquer" and also for infiltrating. Notice the fear. The bishop is not named. What he says is recorded as "opinion".

Remnant Rocor blog will publish anything that exposes the truth about the origin of the R-splits. Truth is not an opinion. Suspicion is not an opinion. Thank God we have a bishop who dares to speak.

The following prayer from the service for the Beheading of St. John the Baptist (Aug. 29/Sept. 11) is amazingly appropriate for 9/11:

"Bend Thy bow and proceed prosperously, and be king, O Son of the Mother of God; subjugate the Ishmaelite people making war upon us, granting victories to our rulers* over barbaric enemies, through the intercessions of her who bare Thee, O Word of God."

*The original Greek service has “to the Orthodox emperor”

This prayer, which was composed many centuries ago, is still quite actual today as current events continue to reveal on a daily basis.

united in purpose and only separated on the surface. The American
Milan uses the old calendar as its criteria for membership in the
old calendar club – which is a super-correct version of SCOBA.

With that as a backdrop, see how LoBue is tied to Metr. Evlogios

(new); and it is HE who is the direct descendant of Nikodim. The
next few posts will show that Nikodim (a secret Catholic bishop) was
a KGB agent, part of a network of agents, and that Nikodim's
successor was a freemason despite his denials of this fact.

The following OrthodoxWiki entry is dated January 2011. I did not get a

Joseph's name appears 19 times on this page. Here you can get a really good "feel" for what is happening. Suaiden is revealed as a cyber-stalker by one of his opposers and given a warning by the Wiki moderator.

In the early 1960s the relationship between the Vatican and Russia began to change. The Second Vatican Council introduced ecumenism into the Roman Catholic bloodstream, and the Orthodox were now “separated brethren” rather than schismatics and heretics. So the Popes were now willing to enter into friendly relations with the Orthodox – although whether this was simply the wolf putting on sheep’s clothing remained to be seen... As for the official Russian Orthodox Church, it was now a complete slave of the Bolsheviks. In 1948, at Stalin’s bidding, it had condemned ecumenism and the Roman Catholics. But now, under orders from the same KGB, it entered the World Council of Churches and sent observers to the Vatican Council. The aim, undoubtedly, was not ecclesiastical, but political: to infiltrate western church life with Soviet agents, and to influence western church gatherings in a pro-Soviet direction…

Soviet control of the Russian Orthodox Church, and its influence on the Vatican through the Russian hierarchs, was proved in January, 1992, when a Commission of the Presidium of the Russian Supreme Soviet investigating the causes and circumstances of the 1991 putsch, established that for several decades at least the leaders of the Moscow Patriarchate had been KGB agents. Members of the commission obtained access to the records of the fourth, Church department of the KGB’s Fifth Directorate, and revealed that Metropolitans Juvenal of Krutitsa, Pitirim of Volokolamsk, Philaret of Kiev and Philaret of Minsk were all KGB agents, with the codenames “Adamant”, “Abbat”, “Antonov” and “Ostrovsky”.

But it was the Commission’s report on March 6 that contained the most shocking revelations: “KGB agents, using such aliases as Sviatoslav, Adamant, Mikhailov, Nesterovich, Ognev and others, made trips abroad, organised by the Russian Orthodox Department of External Relations [which was headed by the present patriarch, Cyril (Gundiaev)], performing missions assigned to them by the leadership of the KGB. The nature of their missions shows that this department was inseparably linked with the state and that it had emerged as a covert centre of KGB agents among the faithful.” “The Commission draws the attention of the Russian Orthodox Church leadership to the fact that the Central Committee of the CPSU and KGB agencies have used a number of church bodies for their purposes by recruiting and planting KGB agents. Such deep infiltration by intelligence service agents into religious associations poses a serious threat to society and the State. Agencies that are called upon to ensure State security can thus exert uncontrolled impact on religious associations numbering millions of members, and through them on the situation at home and abroad.”[4]

The findings of the Commission included:- (i) the words of the head of the KGB Yury Andropov to the Central Committee sometime in the 1970s: “The organs of state security keep the contacts of the Vatican with the Russian Orthodox Church under control…”; (ii) “At the 6th General Assembly of the World Council of Churches in Vancouver, the religious delegation from the USSR contained 47 (!) agents of the KGB, including religious authorities, clergy and technical personnel” (July, 1983); (iii) “The most important were the journeys of agents ‘Antonov’, ‘Ostrovsky’ and ‘Adamant’ to Italy for conversations with the Pope of Rome on the question of further relations between the Vatican and the Russian Orthodox Church, and in particular regarding the problems of the uniates” (1989).[5]

At the 6th General Assembly of the World Council of Churches in Vancouver, the religious delegation from the USSR contained 47 (!) agents of the KGB, including religious authorities, clergy and technical personnel” (July, 1983)

http://metanthonymemorial.org/VernostNo146.html

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from The Sword & The Shield

Chapter 28

The Penetration and Persecution of the Soviet Churches

ALTAR

SVYATOSLAV

ADAMANT Metropolitan Nikodim

MAGISTER

ROSHCHIN

ZEMNOGRSKY

August 1969 these agents went to England to take part in the work of the WCC central committee. Agents managed to avert hostile activities [public criticism of Soviet religious persecution]...

at the Canterbury conference, KGB agents also succeeded in "placing agent KUZNETSOV in a high post." Alexei Sergeyevich Buyevsky, lay secretary of the MP's foreign relations department headed by Nikodim.

YESAULENKO- Monk Iosif Pustoutov recruited 1970, age 26, used as agents of influence with western churches

been a priest in the Moscow Patriarchate under Metropolitan Nikodim of

Leningrad. He was consecrated a bishop on Sept. 9, 1984 by bishops

Gabriel and James Tiago. In 1997, the Lisbon Synod split up and he

briefly join the Cyprianites before joining the Orthodox Church of

Poland. In 1990, he formed the Milan Synod with Gregory of Turin and

Vigile of Paris. He was elected Metropolitan on Sept. 27, 1990. He

is accused of being a freemason.

See: http://kellion.org/blog1/

http://www.genuineorthodoxchurch.net/acaciansmilan.html

= = =>here is something Loony Goony Mooney had posted on10/2510

Re: [paradosis] Re: Did Milan bloggers really "not know"?

One has to wonder about the research which the historian of Milan put into his

History of Milan "Luz Veritatis." The first edition (and in great part the

second edition) has...

1) No mention of the Tomos of Autonomy granted to Milan by Patriarch Volodymir

of Kiev in 1994.

2) No mention of the great efforts made between 1997 and 2003 to join no less

than *seven* of the ancient Patriarchates (3 of them being New Calendar)

3) No mention of the attempt made to enter into a union with the (monophysite)

Syriac Orthodox Church

4) No mention of the 2005 Encyclical of Metropolitan Evloghios (Hessler) and

its "Branch Theory"

5) No mention of the Soviet ordination of Metropolitan Evloghios and his 13

years as a Soviet priest.

(Mooney is a goon suspect who has been playing "Good Cop/Bad Cop" with the Milan deacon Joseph Suaiden of nftu for at least two years now on every forum where the Milan deacon posts. They take turns permitting each other to be "the hero" for their respective "sides.")

Gregory of Turin was consecrated as bishop on Sept. 22, 1984 (n.s.?) by Bishops Gabriel and Tiago. He, being referred to as Gregory of Aquileia, is accused of being a fervent supporter of Mussolini. It is not known what happened to him after that. Apparently he applied to join the Orthodox Church of Poland but was refused for fears of complicating relations with the Vatican.

See: http://kellion.org/blog1/

http://www.genuineorthodoxchurch.net/acaciansmilan.html

Vigil of Paris is apparently the same person as Msg. Michel Laroche, but until this is confirmed, he is listed separately. The only things that are known about him is that he joined with Eulogius of Milan and Gregory of Turin in 1990 to found the Milan Synod, and then later broke communion with Eulogius, accusing him of being a freemason.

See: http://www.genuineorthodoxchurch.net/acaciansmilan.html

http://kellion.org/blog1/

Michel Laroche is apparently a bishop, although the title "Mgr." (Monseigneur) is always used instead, formerly of the Milan Synod. It is unknown who ordained him or when he was ordained or when he left the Milan Synod. He may be the same person as "Vigile of Paris", although this is not confirmed. He has accused Evloghios of being a freemason on the page: http://web.archive.org/web/20020314030536/http://geocities.com/Paris/8919/html/ortho/parasyn.htm

Release concerning the affiliation of the Metropolitan Évloghios an organization parasynagogale:

The "Brother" Évloghios (worldwide Klaus Hessler) sign itself in two documents which he claims membership of Masonic lodges. The synod's decisions are first taken in a box in which the bishops are present bricklayers and a number of people absolutely étreangères the Orthodox Church. The decisions of this lodge are then imposed on other bishops. Globalist doctrine of Masonry is actually impregnated into the new "Metropolis of Western Europe and all America (and soon the whole of Africa !...). It does not exist, except to the Popish doctrine, local church with authority over several continents. This Masonic ideology is absolutely foreign to Orthodoxy. Metropolitan Évloghios had yet signed in Portugal, during his episcopal consecration a commitment not to belong to Freemasonry, for in the Orthodox Church is anticanonical to be a member of the clergy and mason. This word was clearly broken. The Metropole is now Évloghios Koukouli in Masonic ceremonies and in the nick of chivalric orders which are composed of Masons in costume operetta.

Bishop also says Évloghios in various documents, it is in communion with the Orthodox Church in Ukraine. In reality it neither in communion with the Orthodox Metropolis of Ukraine's Foreign Member of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, nor with the Kiev Patriarchate headed by Patriarch Filaret SS (which was excluded end-September 1997) or with His Holiness Patriarch Dimitri recognizes that the exclusion of Bishop Évloghios by the Patriarchate led by the Holy Synod headed by Patriarch Filaret. Note that these three Ukrainian churches could be in communion with a bishop belonging to Freemasonry, which is absolutely the repeat anticanonical.

I have copied out the above from Wiki before that gets "updated" too. What appears on Wiki now may or may not be the same. But if the link still works, do check it out - there might be some supporting photos, which may have not been removed yet.

Concerning Hessler's affiliation to the masonry we can say the follow:

There are certain persons who have seen documents which proof the membership of Hessler in the masonry. His environnement is typical. The foundations of the so-called knightly pseudo-orders in Italy and Germany, the so-called "Konstantins order." His closest friend was a magician of the Sun-Templar-Order in France and Italy, Gregorio Baccolini, formerly a Roman Catholic Benedictin priest-monk, after being a Methodist, and after being a Benedictin, and after 1945 with the Sergianiste Moscow Patriarchate, after with Auxentios Pastras of Greece, with the false Church of Portugal (always together with Hessler, his friend), working in a esoteric bookshop in Torino (with a violet Collar!)

[This information is given by an eye-witness to the bookstore and the violet collar]

Apparently this question was brought up in the past. For those who were not present on the internet, or were not paying attention for some reason or other to this particular subject, this report attempts to briefly reconstruct the accusation and the supporting evidence.

In this report are basically two things:

1. An undated written accusation levied against Metropolitan Evloghios by his former-fellow bishop Michel [aka Monsignor Michel]. It has never been translated from French into good English, as far as I know. But we do have a summary of this paper in English, which is below in this report. There is a Google translation of this paper in the previous post on this blog.

2. A detailed summary in English of a letter that Met. Evloghios himself wrote in German introducing himself to the German masons in 1989.

The issue of Met. Evologhios being a mason seems to be mysteriously unresolved. Most all evidences have been removed from the internet. The supporting links are to pages that no longer exist. No explanation. No recanting, no corrections, no apologies - just silence.

Does it matter, anyway, if Metropolitan Evologhios is a mason or not? We at this blog think not. The fact that Metropolitan Evloghios spent 17 years under Nikodim is already more than enough reason to distrust this Milan group. Nikodim is now known to have been a secret Roman Catholic and a KGB agent code-named "Adamant."

Knowing about Met. Evloghios' history with Nikodim, is it any surprise that Met. Evloghios is a mason? And further, is it any surprise that he denies being a mason?

2. A request was made to the Matthewites to remove the above page from their site. Their response was that they had previously investigated the claims of Freemasonry and found them to be valid, but in the interests of peace would remove the above article if the Milanites could produce a document signed by Archbishop Evloghios stating that he was not a Freemason.

3. The response by the Milanites was that it would do no good for the Metropolitan to officially deny his masonic involvement, and that it is easy to forge documents and thus the documents prove nothing.

All the Matthewites are asking for is an official statement from Evloghios stating that he is personally not a Freemason. This seems reasonable, and it would end this whole dispute.

Summary of the letter Met. Evloghios wrote to the German masons

The quality of the graphic images is very poor; we seem to be

looking at scans of photocopies, and the size is much reduced.

I couldn't even give you an accurate transcription of the English,

much less an accurate translation of the German. But the letter

appears to be from Metropolitan Evloghios to "The Most Enlighted

National Great Master, Brother Manfred Chermann" in Berlin, and

is dated 7 September 1989 at Milan. The gist of it is:

1) I wanted to write and introduce myself to you. I'm Orthodox

Archbishop of Milan, born in Westphalia. I've been in Milan for

17 years, first as a pastor of the Russian Orthodox Church. Since

1984 I've been Bishop, and since 1985 Archbishop, on the throne

of St. Ambrose.

2) I've been a freemason for a good 13 years. At first I was a member

of the brotherhood of an irregularly-constituted Grand Lodge, and later,

in the year [this looks like 1904 to me, but it must be 1984], I became

a member of the regular French National Grand Lodge. After the affair

of "Propaganda die" [I have no idea what this is. He says something

about "this Schrist" or maybe "this publication" or maybe "this

step", and something about Italian freemasonry being overshadowed.]

3) In our French Grand Lodge we will soon be following the Scottish Rite

in Italian, and I have spoken with [some kind of Brother] of the Italian

Brotherhood, offering to work together.

4) In my mission diocese there is a small parish in Berlin and another

one in Stockholm, of which Brother Manfred [I can't make out the last

name] of your lodge "Victor by the Golden Hammer" is the Ipodiakon

[I don't know what that is] of my jurisdiction and will, if God wills, be

ordained a deacon in October or November. My pastoral duties often

take me to Germany, and I would like to visit your lodge in Berlin. I

would be very pleased if it could be permitted that my second

membership [or fellowship] could be proposed in your august [or

reverend] Lodge; naturally, only if you approve of this move.

5) In this post I am sending you two brochures about our Church, which

is united to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. [Something about a pleasure

to meet the addressee] and greet you, giving you a threefold brotherly kiss.

6) [Signed] Brother Evloghios Klauss Hessler, Archbishop of Milan.

The above is just a rough approximation of the letter. There follows a

copy of a membership card in English, a certificate in French and

English, and a photo of what appears to be Metropolitan Evloghios

at a lodge meeting.

********************

In Christ,

Stavros

Comments

Itallcomesdowntowhomyoubelieve. Bishop

Michelprobablyhasanaxetogrind, butIdon't

thinkMr. Wootendoes.

Tobefrankaboutit, IdobelievethatMetropolitan

Evloghiosisacrankandmostlikelyafreemason,

butI'mwillingtoacceptthefactthattheremay

beareasonabledoubtabouthisfreemasonry. Given

thecanonicalpositionoftheMilanSynod, orrather

thelackofanycanonicalposition, there'snot

reallyanyneedtogointothequestionoffreemasonry.

MoretothepointisStavros' noteaboutthe

factthattheTomosofAutonomywasnotinfact

giventotheSynodofMilanbuttotheSynod

ofLisbon. (Thathadcompletelyslippedmymind;

IwishIhadStavros' powerofrecall.)

ImaintainthatArchbishopAuxentios[who gave the Milan synod its first Tomos -jh]wasneverinfactthecanonicalArchbishopofAthensorthecanonicalpresidentoftheHolySynodoftheChurchofGreeceandthatnoneofhisofficialactshaveanycanonicalforce.

It has a very brief article by "Mgr. Michel Laroche", who as far as I have been able to find out is the "Archbishop of France, recognized by the Kiev Patriarchate." Whether that means "Patriarch Filaret" or "Patriarch Dmitri," or whether that information (such as it is) is even current, I couldn't tell you.

[French is a very difficult language for me, and I won't attempt a translation, but the gist of it is:

... same text as above ...

a copy of a membership card in English, a certificate in French and English, and a photo of what appears to be Metropolitan Evloghios at a lodge meeting.]

This page appears on a website entitled "Episcopi Vagantes"; it's

not clear to me who the webmaster is.

If the information presented is correct, it means that Metr.

Evloghios and some of his bishops and clergy are Masons, that he was a Mason before his consecration and agreed to leave the Masons, but lied about it, and as late as 1989 was pursuing further involvement with a lodge in Germany. Not a very pretty picture.

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VL AGAFANGEL PRAYER

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"I have taken you in my arms, and I love you, and I prefer you to my life itself. For the present life is nothing, and my most ardent dream is to spend it with you... I place your love above all things, and nothing would be more bitter or painful to me than to be of a different mind than you.”

St. John Chrysostom

QUOTE

"If we have a good priest (or bishop), we give thanks to God. If a bad one, we endure him".

- old Russian saying

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"And here is something to which I would like to draw your attention to – something about which very many do not think about. Father Archimandrite Constantine, whom probably many of you know, the reposed editor of the journal “Orthodox Rus’”, a profound Christian mind, considered that the most terrible among all the achievements of the communists was that the communists created their own false-church, a soviet church which they shoved onto the unfortunate people in place of the genuine Church which went underground into the catacombs. Do not think that I am exaggerating or that Father Constantine was exaggerating!

Once, in the year 1918, a Pan-Russian Church Council was held. At this Council, the entire Pan-Russian Church together with its first holy hierarch, Patriarch Tikhon anathematized, excommunicated from the Church not only the theomachists and godless ones themselves, but also all those who would collaborate with them."

~St. Philaret of NY

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"To the Russians abroad, it has been granted to shine in the whole world with the light of Orthodoxy, so that other peoples, seeing their good deeds, might glorify our Father Who is in heaven, and thus obtain salvation for themselves. But if it does not perform this purpose and even abases Orthodoxy by its life, the Diaspora will have before itself two paths: either to be converted to the path of repentance, having acquired forgiveness through prayer to God and being reborn spiritually and to being capable of giving rebirth to our suffering homeland; or else being rejected by God and remaining in banishment, persecuted by everyone, until gradually it will degenerate and disappear from the face of the earth."

from Vladika John's report to the All-Diaspora Sobor in 1938

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The apostasy of our times, to a degree unique in Christian history, is proceeding not primarily by false teachings or canonical deviations, but rather by a false understanding of Orthodoxy on the part of those who may even be perfectly Orthodox in their dogmatic teaching and canonical situation. A correct "Orthodoxy" deprived of the Spirit of true Christianity—this is the meaning of Sergianism, and it cannot be fought by calling it a "heresy," which it is not, nor by detailing its canonical irregularities, which are only incidental to something much more important.

- Russia's Catacomb Saints

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Let it not be thought, however, that I affirm that it is necessary to prize every peace. For I know that there is a splendid disagreement and the most destructive unanimity. Yet one must love a good peace which has a good purpose: unity with God.

-St. Gregory the Theologian

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... To pious Christians the fact that the world has fallen into godlessness is to them obvious, and they are ready to see it as an unfortunate historical inevitability ...

Professor Viktor Trostinkov

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If you want to have assurance that you are saved, repent now that you are young and healthy and it is manifest that you left sin while you were still able to sin. But if you persevere in sin into your old age, why then you did not leave sin, but rather sin left you.

St. Nicodemus of the Holy Mountain

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Live in peace not only with your friends, but also with your enemies; but only your personal enemies, and not the enemies of God.

St. Theodosius of the Kiev Caves

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Judge not according to appearances, but judge righteous judgment.

St. John 7:24

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"If Russia is not ressurrected, a new Golgotha threatens the whole world."

Priest Vladimir Evsukoff 1980†

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A man who does not express a desire to link himself to the latest of the saints (in time) in all love and humility owing to a certain distrust in himself, will never be linked to the preceding saints and will not be admitted to their succession, even though he thinks he possesses all possible faith and love for God and for all His saints. He will be cast out of their midst, as one who refused to take humbly the place allotted to him by God before all time, and to link himself to that latest saint (in time) as God had disposed.

St. Symeon the New Theologian

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SCOBA, to which world orthodoxy gives such great significance, reproaching us for not belonging to it, actually is in no way a canonical organ. The Russian Church Outside of Russia was invited to take part in these conferences; however, our Church refused to send representatives there after clergy of the Moscow Patriarchate were invited. "We never and nowhere will sit at one table with them; by this our spiritual communion with the Universal Church is not broken."

Archpriest George Grabbe 1969

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"Let us always thank the Lord that we are in the Holy Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia, which throughout the 80 years of its existence has trodden the straight, royal path of God, without ever turning aside and losing its way."

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The passions lying hidden in the soul provide the demons with the means of arousing impassioned thoughts in us. Then, fighting the intellect through these thoughts, they force it to give its assent to sin. When it has been overcome, they lead it to sin in the mind; and when this has been done they induce it, captive as it is, to commit the sin in action. Having thus desolated the soul by means of these thoughts, the demons then retreat, taking the thoughts with them, and only the spectre or idol of sin remains in the intellect. Referring to this our Lord says, 'When you see the abominable idol of desolation standing in the holy place (let him who reads understand)... (Matt 24:15). For man's intellect is a holy place and a temple of God in which the demons, having desolated the soul by impassioned thoughts, set up the idol of sin. That these things have already taken place in history no one, I think, who has read Josephus will doubt; though some say that they will also come to pass in the time of the Antichrist.

Philokalia

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There are three things that impel us towards what is holy: natural instincts, angelic powers, and probity of intention. Natural instincts impel us, when, for example, we do to others what we would wish them to do to us (cf. Luke 6:31), or when we see someone suffering deprivation or in need and naturally feel compassion. Angelic powers impel us when, being ourselves impelled to something worthwhile, we find we are providentially helped and guided. We are impelled by probity of intention when, discriminating between good and evil, we choose the good.

Philokalia

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The outward Gospel of social idealism is a symptom of loss of faith.

Fr. Seraphim Rose

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Impurity of intellect consists first in having false knowledge, ...

Philokalia

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Isn't Marx really the third of a trio with Darwin and Freud as a practical source in the war against revealed truth?

Fr. Seraphim Rose

Letters, 1972

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To: ROCA members from the MP

"You have to understand that you have long been in a false church, which implants in its members' souls, a false spirituality, which in turn takes root and grows stronger and stronger, the longer a man stays in it."

Bishop Athanasius, 2014

QUOTE

Mankind has gone mad, and we see with horror the abyss into which it is being drawn. Let us lay aside every worldly care, and let us fall down in prayer and readiness for the dread Judgment of the Lord. Death will not come with bombs and poisons. Death has already come and take up residence with us and in us, and has made corpses of us, Mammon has overwhelmed this sinful world, which is dominated by Queen Science, Lucifer himself, which with one hand makes medicines and machines for man's foolish happiness and with the other terrorizes him by means of the bomb! Such is the sorry state of knowledge and the agony of the world through and through. Let us lift up our hearts.

-Photios Kontoglou (†1965) letter to Dr. Cavarnos dated 5/10/57

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"Psychopaths are a superior subspecies. We transcend humanity. We are Nature's Supermen. We deserve the subservience and availability of everyone around us. Luckily, every year 100-million people are born throughout the world. We have 100-million new choices every year."

-Sam Vaknin, self-realized psychopath

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Our Saviour placed the Church in the world in order to save the world, and Satan is always trying to place the world into the Church in order to destroy the Church.

attributed to Desert Fathers

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"If you see lying and hypocrisy, expose them in front of all, even if they are clothed inpurple and fine linen."

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